This recipe is such a great combo of mixed greens, onion, and peaches. The slight bitterness of the kale, along with the sharpness of the onion, is complemented by the sweetness of the peaches and raisins. The added crunch of the pecans gives this recipe an added layer of flavor.

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When you start an exercise or diet program, you are anxious to see results. That makes sense, especially if you are working hard to eat healthier. Are you positive that you are eating the right foods, though? There may be hidden foods in your diet that are counteracting your weight loss efforts by killing your metabolism.

Not all foods are healthy, even if you think they are. Since weight loss is about 80% diet and 20% exercise, it’s crucial to provide your body with the right foods. To achieve your weight loss goals, it is beneficial to avoid the foods in this article. Most of these foods can cause the following:

• Weight Gain
• Fatigue
• Muscle Weakness
• Blood Sugar Imbalance
• Thyroid Dysfunction
• Unhealthy Cravings
• Digestive Discomfort

Farmed Beef

Farmed beef is full of antioxidants that destroy healthy gut bacteria. As you can imagine, this leads to digestive problems and weight gain. A recent study found that the antibiotics in farmed beef alter the way the body processes food. This is why it is best to avoid meat and meat products. The results of a meaty diet can be detrimental to not only your metabolism, but your overall health as well.

Fruit Juice

Where do we begin with fruit juice? Let us first start by saying that fat in your diet isn’t typically the first thing that is adding inches to your waist. Consuming foods with hidden sugars, such as bottled fruit juice, can cause cravings, inflammation, and can slow your metabolism. The most common fruit juices people consume are orange, apple, and grape, all of which are basically sugar water. A typical eight-ounce glass of fruit juice contains about 30 grams of sugar. Instead of drinking these sugar drinks, you can make your own juice using a juicer, or you can add fresh fruit to water. You can also make homemade lemonade by squeezing fresh lemons in water and adding a little stevia.

“Healthy” Chips & Crackers

There are a lot of so-called “healthy” chips and snacks out there, but they often contain processed vegetable oils such as safflower or sunflower oils, both of which have omega-6 fats. Unlike healthy omega-3 fatty acids, which are in walnuts, avocados, flaxseeds, or cabbages, omega-6 fats is correlated with obesity. There used to be a balance between omega-3s and omega-6s in the American diet, but high consumption of processed foods has led to a high omega-6/omega-3 ratio. These “healthy” chips, for instance, can also contain trans fats and soybean oil. Plus, it takes the body almost 3 times longer to process these foods than it does to process fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.

White Flour

It’s no secret that Americans love pasta and bread. Well, white flour is processed and devoid of all the health benefits that whole, sprouted grains offer. White flour is wheat that doesn’t have any of wheat’s benefits, which include dietary fiber and antioxidants. Because it doesn’t have any fiber, it does nothing for your metabolism or intestinal health. Typically, white flour and refined grains slow your digestion. This is why it is beneficial to eat sprouted grains like barley wheat or quinoa, both of which work to encourage a healthy metabolism.

Artificial Sweeteners

Probably one of the worst foods for your metabolism, artificial sweeteners are attractive to people because they lie to you by saying you can consume them guilt-free. Aspartame, for instance, has been linked to free radical damage, accelerated aging, increased cravings for carbs, and apoptotic changes in the brain. Artificial sweeteners are typically found in diet sodas. Drinking one diet soda a day significantly increase a person’s risk of weight gain and adds inches to the waist. Avoid artificial sweeteners and use stevia, agave nectar, or organic grade B maple syrup instead. The best part with all of these alternatives is that a little goes a long way.

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In case you haven’t heard, an unhealthy colon leads to a sick body. A colon that has accumulated toxins and waste inhibits the absorption of nutrients from the foods you eat. To put it simply: if you don’t have a clean colon, the path to wellness is not attainable. The colon has to function properly in order to eliminate waste from the body.

The digestive tract plays a huge role when it comes to overall health. Every cell and tissue in the human body relies on a healthy colon. Even though waste products from digested food enter the colon, they can still contain nutrients that the colon can absorb. If the colon doesn’t need these nutrients, it can send them back to the body to use. If the colon can’t function the way it should, then you can run into some problems.

The colon’s job is to eliminate toxins, but an unhealthy diet and lifestyle choices can inhibit healthy colon function. If the colon isn’t doing its job, it accumulates waste. It doesn’t help that processed foods don’t contain any nutrients or enzymes that benefit digestion. The body can completely pass food within 24 hours, provided you are eating a healthy, plant-based diet. Processed foods can take up to 70 hours to pass through the body, which is why most Americans have 20lbs of waste in the colon and digestive tract. This built-up waste can lead to a variety of major health conditions, one of which being colon cancer.

One of the best ways to maintain a healthy colon is to completely avoid processed foods. Additionally, you can benefit from eliminating meat, meat products, dairy products, added sugars, and junk food from your diet. A diet rich in fresh vegetables, fruits, legumes, nuts, seeds, and sprouted grains can improve your digestive health.

Maple Syrup Colon Cleanse Recipe

Ingredients:

• 12 ounces filtered water
• 2 tablespoons organic grade B maple syrup
• Juice of 1 organic lemon
• ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper

Instructions:

• Combine all of the ingredients and consume this 4 times a day for 2 weeks.

Essential Oil Colon Cleanse Recipe

Ingredients:

• 12 ounces filtered water
• 5 drops peppermint essential oil
• 5 drops lemon essential oil
• Juice of 1 organic lemon

Instructions:

• Combine all of these ingredients and consume it 3 times a day for 2 weeks.

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If you don’t know by now, turmeric is an ingredient that is worth having at all times. You never know when it will come in handy. It has potent anti-inflammatory properties and tons of antioxidants, which can help remedy many health conditions. Did you know that turmeric has been known to inhibit cancer cell growth? Well, it can!

While we could talk about the many benefits of turmeric, this article is about how turmeric can help naturally fight depression. Turmeric has traditionally been used in Ayurveda and folk medicine to treat gastrointestinal issues, blood disorders, or hepatic disorders. Recent studies have shown that the active ingredient in turmeric, curcumin, has antidepressant like activity.

Curcumin was tested side by side with fluoxetine (an antidepressant) in a six-week study that was conducted on patients with major depressive disorder (MDD). Over the course of the study, findings revealed that curcumin had a more positive effect than the fluoxetine. In fact, the study concluded that curcumin could be used as a safe modality for treatment in people with MDD without simultaneous suicidal or psychotic disorders.

Turmeric vs. Prozac

The problem with taking an antidepressant like Prozac is that you may experience an onslaught of side effects. People can experience stomach bleeding, difficulty breathing, or thoughts of suicide. Turmeric on the other hand doesn’t have any side effects and is beneficial for the entire body. You could be improving your digestion and combating depression at the same time!

How To Make The Lemonade

You can make this lemonade in various ways, but we prefer the way described below.

Ingredients

• 4 cups of distilled water
• 2 Tbsp. freshly grated turmeric or turmeric powder
• 4 Tbsp. grade B maple syrup, or stevia powder to desired sweetness
• juice of 1 lemon
• small pinch of black pepper

Directions

• Mix all of the ingredients in a pitcher and stir well. Serve with fresh lemon slices. You can consume this daily and it goes well with any meal.

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Apple cider vinegar can do it all. It is a pH balancer, a stomach healer, a weight loss booster, a natural cleaner, and an absolute must-have kitchen item. Bragg makes one of the best and most popular varieties of raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar. It is always good to have in the house as an herbal remedy or a flavor agent.

Here are some of the uses for apple cider vinegar. You can add 1 cup of it to a warm bath with Epsom salts and a few drops of lavender essential oil to help detox impurities from your skin. You can make an all-natural pre-workout drink with apple cider vinegar because it helps to give you a natural energy boost. It can even be used as a natural teeth whitener by gargling with a little bit every morning.

While we could go on about the many amazing health benefits of apple cider vinegar, we are here to give you six easy salad dressing recipes to make your salads lively and new. You don’t have to stick to the same sample salad dressing we suggest if you are cleansing. Try these tasty dressings and let us know how you like them.

For every dressing recipe, simply blend the ingredients in a blender, pour the dressing in a glass jar, and store in the fridge.

#1: The Classic

This is the standard apple cider vinaigrette that goes great on almost any salad. Here’s what you’ll need.

• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ½ cup raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
• 2 cloves garlic
• ½ teaspoon each of sea salt and pepper
• 2 tablespoons grade B maple syrup

#2: Raspberry Vinaigrette

The sweet yet tangy nature of the raspberries blends with the sharpness of the apple cider vinegar to make a refreshing dressing. Plus, you get a boatload of antioxidants!

• ¼ cup fresh raspberries
• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ½ cup raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon agave syrup

#3: Sesame Ginger

The Asian flavors in this dressing complement salad ingredients like red cabbage, bell peppers, carrots, daikon, and romaine lettuce.

• 1 tablespoon fresh ground ginger
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon raw sesame seeds
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil (make sure it is chemical-free and sugar-free)
• ½ cup raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar
• 3 tablespoon liquid aminos

#4: Coconut Ranch

This dressing calls for fresh coconut, which actually helps nourish your skin cells. Here is what you’ll need.

• ½ cup fresh coconut meat
• ½ cup mix of fresh herbs (dill, garlic, parsley, and chives)
• ¼ cup organic coconut oil
• ½ cup raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar
• 1 tablespoon agave syrup

#5: Garden Herb Dressing

This dressing is aromatic, herbaceous, and it comes with a lot of health benefits. Using fresh herbs gives the dressing a flavor that can’t be achieved with dried herbs. Enjoy!

• ¼ cup each fresh cilantro, dill, parsley, and chives
• ½ cup extra virgin olive oil
• ½ cup raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar
• 2 tablespoons grade B maple syrup

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A lot of people are always on the go, which usually results in last minute dietary decisions that may not be the best for their health. There may be zero desire to make nutritious, homemade meals all the time. While we support taking time out of the day to prepare food and sit down to eat, we understand that this isn’t possible for everyone.

Smoothies are growing in popularity by the day. Many athletes and fitness & heath enthusiasts continually frequent smoothie or juice bars. Smoothies are a great way to get a wide variety of nutrients in one go, and it usually only takes 5 minutes to make one smoothie! Just make sure you are using fresh fruits and vegetables to make them.

The following 5 smoothies contain ingredients that are great for keeping your heart healthy. All you have to do is put the ingredients in the blender and blend!

#1: Carrot Papaya Smoothie

Papayas are loaded with vitamins C & E, both of which can help prevent arteriosclerosis, and carrots are great for keeping your eyes healthy. Add more antioxidants with some fresh blueberries!

Ingredients

• ½ papaya, cubed
• 1 carrot, chopped
• ½ cup fresh blueberries (optional)
• 1 scoop Dherbs protein powder
• 4 ice cubes
• 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

#2: Chia Seed Acai Berry Blast

Chia seeds are rich in healthy fats and fiber, and are a great source of protein. Acai berries are a superfood rich in antioxidants that help nourish your cells.

Ingredients

• 2 cups unsweetened almond milk (or homemade)
• ½ cup acai berries
• 2 Tbsp. chia seeds
• ½ cup ice

#3: Blueberry Avocado Smoothie

Avocados aren’t the first ingredient you think of when you think of smoothies, but they are a great way to get healthy fats and potassium (a blood pressure regulator) into your diet.

Ingredients

• 1 cup blueberries
• ½ avocado
• ½ banana
• ½ cup spinach
• ½ cup ice
• 1 cup water

#4: Banana Oat Protein Smoothie

Oats in a smoothie? Yes! The combo of bananas and steel cut oats give you a healthy protein boost and good amount of fiber to help improve digestion.

Ingredients

• 2 bananas
• 4 Tbsp. steel cut oats
• 1 cup unsweetened almond milk (or homemade)
• ¼ tsp. cinnamon
• 1 scoop Dherbs protein powder
• ½ cup ice cubes

#5: Superfood Kale Smoothie

Most people are aware of the nutritional benefits of kale by now. How do you incorporate it into your diet, though? Blending it with sweet produce like pears and bananas is a great way to reap the benefits of kale.

Ingredients

• 1 cup torn kale leaves, rinsed
• 1 medium pear
• 1 banana, frozen overnight
• 2 Tbsp. grade B maple syrup
• 1 cup water

Enjoy these smoothies any time of day as a meal or snack. If you want to omit the protein powder, the smoothies won’t turn out any different. You may just want to add less water.

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